Jessica:
@BarnabyWalters Really? That happens to me a lot, but I do live in a windy place. Once my umbrella snapped in half and the top blew away!
@wordridden @julien51 oh no! I am adding this to the list of reasons not to use umbrellas ;)
Brian J Brennan:
@BarnabyWalters nahh nothing like that, it's actually pretty tame. But the GET request would potentially create a resource.
Brian Brennan ah, okay. I was thinking of using SSE-style responses to a POST request as a way of offering real-time feedback about new content creation without having to set up redis and a websockets server.
Brian J Brennan:
Scarred by REST: doing this hacky side project, wanna do something cool that should be a POST, but only works with GET and I have anxiety.
Brian Brennan it’s not something to do with a SSE response to a POST request is it?
Achievement Unlocked: actually saw an umbrella inverted by wind. Didn’t know that happened in real life.
Are any of my USA friends #mentalist fans? I’m not going to be able to see S6E8 until tomorrow evening, wanting to figure out if I need to avoid twitter in case of spoilers until then :)
Tried making some Spanish-style hot chocolate. A little lumpy, and probably not nearly thick enough for @_aitor’s standards, but delicious nontheless!
Post-game-night research: did medieval Croatians have shoelaces? Going by the few bits of 13th century art I can find photos of, no — but that could be down to lazy artists.
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hey @BarnabyWalters thought this might interest you http://t.co/sDMaFLAfea if you don't know about it already of course!
@w03_ thanks, I have indeed heard of Noflo! Haven’t experimented with it much yet due to their focus on the backend framework. I’m working on a similar thing, focused completely on experimenting with programming UI: waterpigs.co.uk/intertubes
psysh.org is the #php REPL shell we have been waiting for. How to start an interactive shell with a given context:
<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
$app = require 'src/app.php';
Psy\Shell::debug(['app' => $app]);
Supports readline, pcntl, registering custom commands, automatic semicolon insertion, clean+concise string representations of evaluated values. Amazing work Justin Hileman!
Found this lovely chart of 17th century Viol ornaments (notation+equivalent notation) in The Division Viol:
DuckDuckGo’s r.duckduckgo.com redirects are intermittently giving Connection Reset errors — just one of the reasons why it’s better that they don’t exist. Let each link link to the thing it says it links to.
Learnt about the Txalaparta from @begoesti — a rather wonderful Basque percussion instrument.
For someone who doesn’t own a TV, I am unduly excited about next weekend. SO MUCH HYPE.
Heading over to Sumendi, hoping that I do actually have a reservation. Everything looks delicious!
Looking to join/start a casual recorder consort in Reykjavík — anyone know of one, or people who might be interested in joining? Preferably with a focus on early music, not vital though.
.Brian Suda PUN THIEF
@wordridden ever tried making moffles (mochi dough waffles)? Apparently they’re rather delicious
Had many basic software development lessons hammered in by personal experience over the last couple of years: hierarchy bad. side effects bad. many moving parts bad. undue complexity bad. inconsistency bad. SQL databases fragile. always be reducing.
It’s amazing just how seductive complex, unproductive tools can be. Successfully overcome+abandoned:
PHP remains productive and speedy (with composer, delightful dependency management), python nice with some irritations. jQuery useful when absolutely necessary, plain #js with small libraries loaded via requirejs handle most progressive enhancement concisely. node.js nice for some things, preferring go’s approach to async programming but still not much everyday need for it.
Avoiding middlemen: LESS, SASS, Coffeescript. Unnecessary for most of my work, and more moving parts is bad.
Now bothering me is the frameworky nonsense accumulating in #taproot. Need to cleanse.
Brian Suda